Is the litigation powerhouse that repped Harvey Weinstein just getting a glow-up, or will it be born again?

Elite law firm Boies Schiller Flexner has promoted its co-Managing Partner Natasha Harrison to the role of deputy chair, making her heir apparent to firm founder and chair David Boies, an extremely rare perch for a woman in Big Law. While associate classes are usually around 45 percent female, fewer than 20 percent make it to the level of equity partner, according to the American Bar Association.

As noted by both the New York Times and Above the Law, the news of Harrison’s elevation was hugely overshadowed by the announcement that the firm’s co-managing partner, Nick Gravante Jr., was leaving the firm. “[I]n the prevailing narrative his departure sounded a death knell while her elevation was an afterthought,” the NYT wrote.

Boies Schiller is known infamously and famously, respectively, for its ethically very questionable practices while representing rapist Harvey Weinstein and for winning the Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for same-sex marriage. The firm also successfully represented the U.S. government in the landmark antitrust suit against Microsoft and unsuccessfully repped Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in Bush v. Gore.

Harrison was promoted to co-managing partner in December of last year following several perceived missteps by David Boies, among them the Weinstein matter and the firm’s involvement with the discredited blood-testing company Theranos. Her elevation to deputy chair comes at a pivotal point for the firm: It has seen an exodus of around 60 partners this year and has committed to doubling down on its litigation speciality. Harrison told the NYT that a “focused firm with ‘dynamic, diverse’ leaders is ‘the blueprint for the future.'”